Happy 2012! Man, I sure hope this year doesn’t kick my butt like 2011 did. We try to keep it positive at Casa Petrie. Well, I don’t have a new computer yet…but I will have to get one soon for my online class and of course to blog! I’ve had easy access to a laptop [...]
We’re eating fairly well under the new coupon regiment. These are some of the dinners we will eat in the next two weeks. Some food we had in the fridge and some I bought during the last trip to Albertsons. tofu and stirfry veggie mix, brown rice pork chops, brown rice and okra tandoori chicken [...]
I wanted to update you on my little decluttering experiment. I got rid of about 20 bags of stuff in October. Some was just garbage from the garage and yard (boxes, the juniper we’d cut down, and tree trimmings) and some stuff we recycled by taking it to Goodwill or passing it along to friends. [...]
I’m trying a little experiment this fall. I’m going to throw out, sell, give away or place in my house one bag of stuff every day. It can be anything from yard debris to old toys. This will be in addition to normal garbage I collect from around the house. I live for decluttering and [...]
Last weekend we thinned out the library and really cleaned it. I also moved some books to make room for our musical instruments. Books can get incredibly dusty, so we had to move each book and dust it. I know these shelves look full, but we took out bags and bags of books! The bottom [...]
One of my BIG Getting Ready for Baby projects was to organize the changing station and baby clothing, diapers/wipes, and burp cloths/blankets. I plan on using cloth diapers when the baby grows into them, but we will have to use disposables until then. My friend Christine gave us tons of cloth diapers and covers and [...]
I’ve organized my stamps into plastic bins, but I wanted a visual record of my stamps, roughly organized by theme. And I know you want to see my stamps, too. Right? Of course you do! I try to use the stamps I have before I buy new stamps. [...]
I have two ways of getting rid of my stuff. When my house is messy and I feel frustrated that I cannot keep it organized, I mercilessly get rid of bags of things in each room. Sometimes I get over-zealous and get rid of stuff we might still be using. Not good. The better way [...]
In the past couple of years I’ve accumulated a lot of crafting supplies. They were housed in our library and in our office, but unfortunately I wasn’t seeing the great supplies I have. I started off with this: and this Using large baskets to organize small things is inefficient because you spend so much [...]
Thanks to How Sweet the Sound for hosting Pink Saturday. We have made an effort here at Casa Petrie to use our closet space well. I read lots of small home (usually small is considered under 2,000 square feet) books to get storage and organization ideas. These books point out two important points about closets: 1) if [...]